Reading order · 3 books · 2016 to 2025 · Set in Suffolk
Susan Ryeland Books in Order
The Susan Ryeland books follow a book editor who solves real murders hidden inside the manuscripts of a golden-age-style detective, Atticus Pünd. Each book contains a complete Atticus Pünd novel within it.
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Series facts
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2016 to 2025
- First book
- Magpie Murders
- Latest
- Marble Hall Murders (2025)
- Setting
- Set in Suffolk
The reading order
Every Susan Ryeland book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
3 books · Set in Suffolk
- 1Magpie Murders2016With Susan RyelandSusan Ryeland, a book editor, receives the latest manuscript from her bestselling author, Alan Conway, whose detective Atticus Pünd is investigating a death in a 1950s English village.Buy on Amazon
- 2Moonflower Murders2020With Susan RyelandSusan Ryeland, now running a hotel in Crete, is asked by an English couple to find their missing daughter, who vanished after reading one of Alan Conway’s Atticus Pünd novels.Buy on Amazon
- 3Marble Hall Murders2025With Susan RyelandSusan Ryeland, back in London, is editing a new Atticus Pünd novel by a young writer, and begins to suspect that the story hides the truth about a real death.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, then Marble Hall Murders.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Susan Ryeland | Atticus Pünd | Andreas Patakis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Magpie Murders | LLead | MMajor | MMajor |
| 2 Moonflower Murders | LLead | MMajor | MMajor |
| 3 Marble Hall Murders | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
Characters in the Susan Ryeland books
4 characters from Anthony Horowitz’s chart, with the number of Susan Ryeland books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Susan RyelandBook editor turned amateur detective | 3 | Magpie Murders 2016 |
| Atticus PündDetective in the novels within the novels | 3 | Magpie Murders 2016 |
| Andreas PatakisSusan’s partner | 3 | Magpie Murders 2016 |
| Alan ConwayBestselling author of the Atticus Pünd novels | 1 | Magpie Murders 2016 |